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July 7, 2021
The latest episode of Px Pulse takes a deep dive into PEPFAR, The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, looking at its pioneering successes and its challenges. In this episode, AVAC’s former Director of Strategy and Content, Emily Bass, discusses her new book, To End a Plague: America’s fight to end AIDS in Africa.
Emily began reporting this comprehensive history of PEPFAR not long after George W. Bush launched the program in 2003. Overall, PEPFAR radically changed expectations of what a foreign aid program should be.
But the program has also faced enormous challenges. Emily covers it all in her new book, including questions related to health equity, drug costs, patents, and the best ways to design and implement a foreign aid program and fight pandemics.
Hosted and produced by Jeanne Baron.
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Resources
- PEPFAR Watch—a one-stop shop for all the information you need to monitor and influence PEPFAR Country Operational Plans.
- Influencing PEPFAR COPs: An Advocate's Guide—A two-page resource with background information and an infographic on how PEPFAR Country Operating Plans are developed and how advocates can influence them.
- Advocate for Access to High-Impact Prevention—A snapshot of AVAC’s work at the intersection where funders, policies and programs come together.